Agatha Christie: The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha was brilliant. Case in point: "of course there is really nothing a woman enjoys so much as doing all the things she doesn't like for the sake of someone she does like. And the more self-willed she is, the more she likes it...that's why there are so many unhappy marriages. It's all the fault of the men. Either they give way to their women - and then the women despise them - or else they are utterly selfish, insist on their own way and never say "thank you". Successful husbands make their wives do just what they want, and then make a frightful fuss of them for doing it".

I think there's a lot of sense in that.

The book though, was one of her spy-mystery novels. Part of the Colonel Race Chronology, though he really only had a minor role. Nothing like a good AC novel to pass an afternoon.